We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold I remember saying something like I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ' Hunter S Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney the Samoan to find the dark side of the American Dream Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators police officers & assorted Middle Americans This stylish reissue of Hunter S Thompson's iconic masterpiece a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971 features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour & nightmare terror of Hunter S Thompson's musings on the collapse of the American Dream